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...Miles Johnson had a fascinating investigation into Yevgeny Prigozhin’s Wagner Group and its sanctions-evasion network in Africa and beyond....
...There may be some incremental advantages in some fields, like gene editing or artificial intelligence....
...In 1936, King George V died and David became King Edward VIII. But his decision to marry the twice-divorced American Wallis Simpson soon forced his abdication....
...UK prime minister Boris Johnson said this week that it was “touch and go” whether COP26 would be a success....
...The 9/11 attacks marked the only time Nato has invoked its Article V mutual defence clause — following an assault on America, not Europe....
...The trio of exhibitions stretching from the V&A to the Whitechapel Gallery and White Cube also reveals a fearsome curator....
...She says it is back-to-front to depict the Johnson government as running a culture war from the right....
...Several other Covid-19 vaccines in development, including the Russian Sputnik-V and candidates from Johnson & Johnson of the US and CanSino of China, use adenoviruses....
...The results are similar to those from other Covid-19 vaccines made by BioNTech/Pfizer, Moderna, and Johnson & Johnson, which have all shown varying degrees of efficacy against symptomatic Covid-19 in trials...
...FT commenter Patnaik K V: Are central banks better prepared now, in terms of ammunition at their disposal, to respond to the economic fallout of this pandemic than they were in 2008?...
...No, says Edward Luce in a special edition of Swamp Notes....
...Eleven days later, Boris Johnson, Britain’s prime minister, contracted Covid-19. The disease nearly killed him. That was Johnson’s road-to-Damascus. Many hoped Trump had had a similar conversion....
...The impact on shipping “appears to be much worse” than during the Sars outbreak almost 20 years ago, Gene Seroka, the port’s executive director told CNBC....
...It augurs badly — if any more auguries were needed — for Johnson’s much-hyped US trade deal after Brexit....
...the development of East Bank at Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, a new culture and education district including Sadler’s Wells East’s 550-seat theatre, a large campus for UAL’s London College of Fashion, V&...
...Kingston Polymath 1,011: Dr S Bailey, Swindon Crossword 16,099: Suzanne P Wilson, Windermere; D Barter, Cumbria; Jean-Marc Sellier, California Polymath 1,010: Robert Jelly, Warwickshire Crossword 16,093: V...
...In an example of correlation not causation, the latest from Albert Edwards of SocGen dropped shortly before the selloff got going....
...But, he tells Edward Luce, the crisis can be a force for good....
...Rob Johnson, the head of the Institute for New Economic Thinking, talks about whether we are headed to a depression....
...PCR testing requires reagents to extract viral genes from the patient sample obtained by swabbing and then amplify them so they can be more easily detected....
...Meanwhile, Boris Johnson’s cabinet is pushing to relax two-metre social distancing rules....
...The day ahead Boris Johnson’s new cabinet meets Boris Johnson holds the first meeting with his new cabinet after Thursday’s dramatic reshuffle....
...Edward Luce responds I am as big an admirer of Christine Lagarde as you, Rana....
...Brussels is happy, Boris Johnson is happy. But not everybody is....
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